Thanksgiving outlook with the Weather Gang lab

Today I hosted the first edition of the new live chat video program "Weather Gang Lab." Weather Gang Lab provides an in-depth look at the big weather story of the week with original analysis. It will tend to focus on D.C. area weather stories but may sometimes address weather making news elsewhere. At the end of each segment, I'll address user questions. The program will run each week, probably on Thursday afternoon.

This week's edition focuses on the pattern change likely to occur next week and the outlook for Thanksgiving. Check it out and feel free to provide topic ideas for future editions of the Weather Lab in the comment area below.

Serious, helpful information, with more meaningful detail than OCMs provide. Look forward to seeing Jason on camera with a SLCB "prop", as the first snowfall bears down on DC. You could have fun with that!

Overall, a good production (although given the tie, I wondered if Jason roots for the Denver Broncos, the Tennessee Volunteers, the Auburn Tigers, or the Syracuse Orange?).

IMO the Big East ought to lose their automatic BCS spot to the Mountain West. Both the BCS and NCAA football/hoops ought to adopt the promotion/relegation system current in the UK Premier, Bundesliga and other European soccer federations.

As for the weather, I'm rather disappointed that much-unneeded rain is trying to spoil my Thanksgiving on the verge of my first Thanksgiving dinner date in some years.

Good job Jason. I too am glad to know how to pronounce your name! If you're nervous, try doing the next one without the tie! A couple of technical bits: (1) there's got to be a way of making the monitor appear larger in the screen so we can make out the details; and (2) check your audio level to make sure you're not recording too hot, it's a tiny bit distorted. Can't wait for the next edition.

The audio is distorted, turn down the gain or something. We already have lots of TV weather people. I love the weather gang, but we don't need an attempt at TV weather. They do that better, let them do that. Do what you do really well, which is post colorful weather analysis several times a day. If you want to do video, do something besides a person in front of a TV. That will never bring me back. Keep being creative! This one just doesn't work.

Thanks for the feedback. We're going to try to do some different things from TV weather and provide some deeper analysis than normally provided there. This was the first show and we obviously have some technical issues to work through. And we're also going to experiment with some formats, bring in some other members of CWG to mix it up, etc. We'll learn by doing and see how/where it goes. And don't worry, the written blog content isn't going to get short-changed...